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Wearing a mask instead of a crown, King James and the Heat will be in town on Tuesday night. (Pedro Portal/MCT)

The Rockets did a lot of things well in their 118-110 win over Detroit on Saturday.

They are going to have to do that and much more over the next weeks to come out on top in one of their toughest stretches of the season.

In the next two weeks, the Rockets face several of the league’s top teams. They will see Miami twice, Indiana, Portland and Oklahoma City. They also face Chicago and Orlando in that time.

“It is definitely going to be a tough couple of weeks,” guard James Harden said. “It will be a good test.”

The Rockets got off to a good start in March after going 8-2 in February.

Coming off a five-game road trip, the Rockets were on point in the first half of their return home on Saturday. They hit first and took a big lead, got contributions from everyone who played, pushed the ball on offense and made several big defensive stops.

“We played really well,” coach Kevin McHale said. “We were doing a lot of little things well and doing all the things we have been trying to do.”

But then they slipped, letting the Pistons come back in the fourth quarter. A 25-point lead was cut to seven before the Rockets held out for the win.

“I don’t like that we do that,” center Dwight Howard said. “We just let up in the second half. We have to stop doing that.”

Especially with the upcoming schedule.

The Rockets host Miami on Tuesday night and Howard said the Rockets will have to have a lot more consistency against the defending NBA champs.

“We have to be in attack mode in every quarter against every team,” he said. “We just let off the gas and we need to become a team that can take a lead and hold it and beat a team.”

This season, the Rockets have played eight games where they have not lost a lead.

In their last game against Oklahoma City, the Rockets had their best start of the season, scoring 71 points in the first half. Then they scored 19 in the second and lost the game.

“When you have a big lead, it’s tough to hold on and contain it,” Harden said. “We have to improve on that.”

The Rockets have beat Portland twice this year and have lost to Oklahoma City twice. They lost to Indiana in the first meeting and they have yet to see Miami.

“Those teams are all contenders, so we have to be at our best to come out of this stretch ahead,” Harden said.